Lovely Lauren. Maureen is my cousin and my parents and myself also lived on the Island. We had to leave as I developed bronchitis as a baby. My sister and I are in one of your photos shown here. We were Colleen and Debra Madden. Thanks for your film.
It would be interesting to do a longer post as it looked like so much went on. It seems that women could be placed in those places on the most trivial reasons. It was interesting, thank you. I am against knocking down old buildings as some of them are beautiful, but I make the exception of all the old asylums. There must be so much sadness and anger left in them.
Excellent! My mom lived on Centre Island in the late twenties, and I visited it often as a child. I agree with all the points made in your film. From Hanlan's to Ward's, the islands of the forties and early fifties were far more interesting, for adults and children, than today's largely arid replacement.The farm and Centreville are exceptions, but they were built away from the former location of Centre Island houses, on land that, in my memory, had nothing of interest before the destruction. Fred Gardiner, Tommy Thompson, the Star and the Telegram all deserve condemnation for either instigating, or ignoring this destruction of one of the most beautiful, charming areas of Toronto.
I don't think the epilepsy committal, was 100%. My Grandmother was born here in Northern California in 1892, and as a child they would visit her Uncles ranch in Red Bluff and and her older cousin was like close to 40 and had a child's mind and also had epilepsy and he lived at home with his family, and since my Grandmother was young, he thought he was, they were played like children. I do remember her saying if he had a seizure, the family had to hold him down, no meds in those days
There's still a community on Ward's Island. I've been over there and it's charming.
And don't think that this couldn't happen again anywhere in Ontario and even all of Canada.
Thanks great video, my mom and dad lived at the hotel Jack and Ruth
This is heartbreaking
Great story.
That is so sad why did the people allow it to happen?So sad.Where the people compensated for their property?
Where was this original video found?
Lovely Lauren. Maureen is my cousin and my parents and myself also lived on the Island. We had to leave as I developed bronchitis as a baby. My sister and I are in one of your photos shown here. We were Colleen and Debra Madden. Thanks for your film.
Awesome....my grandparenis owned The Manitou Hote. l
That so sad and messed up
It would be interesting to do a longer post as it looked like so much went on. It seems that women could be placed in those places on the most trivial reasons. It was interesting, thank you. I am against knocking down old buildings as some of them are beautiful, but I make the exception of all the old asylums. There must be so much sadness and anger left in them.
Lesley Smith most servants of the day was often overworked,so therefore complaining was often admitted to asylums.
What a terrible time to be living in!
So sad...now all of these people would can live and have a very high life quality with medication
Excellent! My mom lived on Centre Island in the late twenties, and I visited it often as a child. I agree with all the points made in your film. From Hanlan's to Ward's, the islands of the forties and early fifties were far more interesting, for adults and children, than today's largely arid replacement.The farm and Centreville are exceptions, but they were built away from the former location of Centre Island houses, on land that, in my memory, had nothing of interest before the destruction. Fred Gardiner, Tommy Thompson, the Star and the Telegram all deserve condemnation for either instigating, or ignoring this destruction of one of the most beautiful, charming areas of Toronto.
I don't think the epilepsy committal, was 100%. My Grandmother was born here in Northern California in 1892, and as a child they would visit her Uncles ranch in Red Bluff and and her older cousin was like close to 40 and had a child's mind and also had epilepsy and he lived at home with his family, and since my Grandmother was young, he thought he was, they were played like children. I do remember her saying if he had a seizure, the family had to hold him down, no meds in those days
I was born in 1874 and lived here for all of my life. I died in 1917.
The real mental case where the staff.
This was very interesting
carolinagallegos yes it was very!
Thank you ..hope you make more videos like this
This is a very good Documentary short about the history of the Island that many do not know about.